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I think right now companies are competing until they’re only 1 or 2 that clearly own the majority of the market.

Afterwards they will devolve back into the same thing search engines are now. A cesspool of sponsored ads and links to useless SEO blogs.

They’ll just become gate keepers of information again and the only ones that will be heard are the ones who pay a fee or game the system.

Maybe not though, I’m usually pretty cynical when it comes to what the incentives of businesses are.

Looks like a borzoi/Russian wolfhound

I agree with everything you said, I remember seeing this graph that shows how likely House Democrats and Republicans where likely to vote with their party between 1949 -2011, which already showed a pretty bleak outlook, here’s the full paper.

The second thing that I noticed about ten years ago maybe before that was the sudden increase in misinformation on Facebook and YouTube that people will believe as truth, and since they see it engages you they will constantly bombard them with more and of it. I remember as a kid adults saying don’t believe everything you read, and if so and so would jump off a bridge would you? A lot of them should have taken there own advice.

It’s not just older generations, younger ones are obviously affected by it but in different ways cyber bullying, that weird Andrew Tate following and other.

I heard someone explain like this, let’s say a person walks up to on the street and asks you to buy something, obviously it’s easy to say no and walk away. Now instead of a person imagine it’s a machine with 10 billion times more intelligent than all of humanity combined is constantly trying to get you to click a link.

It’s not an ocean liner but America got pretty pissed at Germany for doing it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania

I think one the biggest sells, especially for these custom rom’s is privacy to be honest. I don’t really trust Google or Apple with the data they probably collect. During COVID parents were being reported to law enforcement for CSAM when sending pictures of there kids medical issues to doctors(Archive Link).

One I guess could argue that sure shit happens when it comes to that scenario, but with the political climate in America combined with the fact that some of the largest tech companies seem to be kowtowing to whatever the current administration is doing, probably makes a lot of people rethink privacy and to find alternatives.

Back when I worked in web hosting I would occasionally get calls mostly from certain European countries and websites mainly doing online gambling which was illegal in those countries. They would always try and demand I hand over the owner of the website and to take it offline.

My response was always the same unless you have a court order from our government than fuck off.

The ones that did have court orders were always interesting cases though and the crazy ones were the ones with court not to take down the website but to plugin a device to monitor all the traffic and every year they would send a new order to let them monitor it for another year

Not sure if this is the exact one they mention, but they’re called key emulators and can get quite expensive, this one is 23,000 https://unlockcarsgrabber.com/product/codegrabber-p31-keyless-go-nintendo-tetris-gameboy/

Pretty much this but the main point of it was it was suppose to be anonymous, so they didn’t have to worry about said axe murder coming after them. The stupid thing they did was require their personal information including selfies during the sign up and that was leaked. Probably the worst thing to happen for the people of that apps intended target audience. Someone’s supposedly already tried to make service to find the women in the leaked data but it was shut down thankfully.

Paramilitary Leaks (Magnet): Over 200 gigabytes of chat logs and recordings from paramilitary groups and militias including American Patriots Three Percent (APIII) and the Oath Keepers, collected by wilderness survival guide John Williams.

Paramilitary Election Interference (Magnet): A curated selection of 202 GB of leaked chat logs and files from the Paramilitary Leaks focused on efforts by paramilitary and far-right groups to influence and interfere with elections, beginning with America’s 2022 mid-term elections.

Magnet2 368.8 GB of additional material added 30 October 2024 updating records and chat logs to 25 October 2024. The new material appears as a second download, torrent, and magnet link, above.

APIII leaders target DDoSecrets (Magnet): Dozens of chat messages, photos and audio from inside the APIII State Leaders’ private chat. The messages reveal that the militia leadership’s interest in DDoSecrets lasted for at least a year, with the intent of identifying and locating its members.

Oath Keepers (Magnet): Approximately 5 gigabytes of emails, chat logs, members and donor lists and other files from the servers of the Oath Keepers.

Liberty Counsel (Torrent): Liberty Counsel helped overturn Roe v. Wade, and claim to have prayed with Supreme Court justices. This release also includes more than 100 internal databases from mostly Christian missionary groups that use the same software for customer relationship management (CRM), called WMTEK. WMTEK develops software exclusively for non-profits that are supposedly Christian.

Parler (Download): Over a million videos and a million images uploaded to Parler, including ones from the January 6 Washington D.C. coup attempt. “Everything we grabbed was publicly available on the web, we just made a permanent public snapshot of it,” one source told VICE.

Project Whispers (Download): Over 9,800,000 searchable messages from neo-Nazi, QAnon and other far right Discord servers.

Yeah the cheapest way, too bad the rpi 4/5 and future versions make it possible to write to the eeprom. Atleast it sounds like the newer ones have a way to make it write protected via a jumper or something.

Sounds like they were arrested for aggravated assault https://wreg.com/news/arkansas-men-arrested-for-shooting-each-other-while-wearing-bulletproof-vest/

You can look here might find a place near you that takes plastic https://community.preciousplastic.com/map I’ve been looking at getting something like this to recycle my own filament. https://felfil.com/?v=5ea34fa833a1

There is a great talk from the Lavabit CEO who discusses what happened to him and his company when they found out Snowden had an email at his company. I won’t link it since it’s YouTube but it’s an hour long but he talks about his experience with the FBI and the courts. You can search for M3AAWG 2014 Keynote, I highly recommend it.